BogdanBiv's questions

I'm on Ubuntu Vivid (15.04) and I have installed Python 2.7 (default) and Python 3.4.

Now, why does pip install ldtp fails to install (fails to create temporary directory /tmp/pip-build-6j6vgvsb/ldtp)?

However, I ran pip install libxml2dom ==> successfully installed package! (just to test pip install works for other packages)

I have tried to manually perform the steps pip performs, but I'm not sure if I arrived at the real problem:

• I downloaded LDTP using wget
• I unpackaged it (tar -xvfz LDTP.tar.gz)
• Ran ./configure and installed the missing libraries (aptitude install libxml2-dev libglib2.0-dev python-gobject-dev)
• ./configure still complains about the missing cspi-1.0 package
• I ran pip install LDTP again - no change
• however, I ran pip install libxml2dom ==> successfully installed package! (just to test pip install works for other packages)
• Now, CSPI is supposed to be part of an AT-SPI package so I installed gir1.2-atspi-2.0, libatspi2.0-0, libatspi2.0-dev, python-pyatspi, python-pyatspi2, python3-pyatspi, python3-pyatspi2

So pip install fails because:

• it does not deal with dependencies (libraries XML2, Glib2, GObject, CSPI)
• under the hood, pip calls ./configure and that fails to build and exits without any warning
• LDTP ./configure still needs CSPI 1.0 package, all I have installed is AT-SPI 2.0

Log extract:

~/ldtp-1.0.0# ./configure  
checking for CSPI_1_0... configure: error: Package requirements (cspi-1.0 >= 1.2.0) were not met:

No package 'cspi-1.0' found

Please check the detailed log

I am trying this guide: https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/cloud-images-and-uvtool.html

$ uvt-simplestreams-libvirt sync release=trusty arch=amd64
bogdanbiv@bivub1404:~$ time uvt-kvm create secondtest release=trusty

real    0m0.673s
user    0m0.127s
sys     0m0.050s

# although last command takes less than 1 second the next command proves 
# the former actually performed something
bogdanbiv@bivub1404:~$ uvt-kvm create secondtest release=trusty 
uvt-kvm: error: libvirt: storage volume 'secondtest.qcow' exists already

bogdanbiv@bivub1404:~$ uvt-kvm wait secondttest --insecure
uvt-kvm: error: libvirt: Domain not found: no domain with matching name 'secondttest'

So what's wrong here? These are exact commands from the Ubuntu documentation - I don't see any difference so I assume something's up.

I had generated a RSA key before creating my VMs.

Calling any executable which is not yet installed results in a message which is not easy to understand:

$ tcl
Der Befehl \xbbtcl\xab wurde nicht gefunden, meinten Sie vielleicht:
 Befehl \xbbtel\xab aus dem Paket \xbborville-write\xab (universe)
 Befehl \xbbtc\xab aus dem Paket \xbbiproute2\xab (main)
 Befehl \xbbtcs\xab aus dem Paket \xbbtcs\xab (universe)
 Befehl \xbbtjl\xab aus dem Paket \xbbpvm-examples\xab (universe)
 Befehl \xbbcl\xab aus dem Paket \xbbcl-launch\xab (universe)
 Befehl \xbbecl\xab aus dem Paket \xbbecl\xab (universe)
 Befehl \xbbtcal\xab aus dem Paket \xbbgcal\xab (universe)
 Befehl \xbbmcl\xab aus dem Paket \xbbmcl\xab (universe)
 Befehl \xbbccl\xab aus dem Paket \xbbcclive\xab (universe)
 Befehl \xbbtbl\xab aus dem Paket \xbbgroff-base\xab (main)
 Befehl \xbbncl\xab aus dem Paket \xbbncl-ncarg\xab (universe)
 Befehl \xbbgcl\xab aus dem Paket \xbbgcl\xab (universe)
 Befehl \xbbtdl\xab aus dem Paket \xbbtdl\xab (universe)
 Befehl \xbbtcc\xab aus dem Paket \xbbtcc\xab (universe)
 Befehl \xbbtcm\xab aus dem Paket \xbbtcm\xab (universe)
tcl: Befehl nicht gefunden.
bogdanbiv@bivub1404:~$ which tcl
bogdanbiv@bivub1404:~$ hgjkh
hgjkh: Befehl nicht gefunden.

Also what's wrong with the hex characters (\xbb and \xab). My system is Kubuntu 14.04, trusty:

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release:        14.04
Codename:       trusty

My system language is English, however I have some regional settings set for my country:

$ locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_RO.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en:de:ro:en
LC_CTYPE="en_RO.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=en_RO.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_RO.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_RO.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=en_RO.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_RO.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=en_RO.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_RO.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_RO.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_RO.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_RO.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_RO.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

Somehow I stumbled upon what may be some relevant information (see more at http://pastebin.com/4XGakzgL):

Command-not-found-Version: 0.3
Python-Version: 3.4.0 final 0

UPDATE: I tried various locale repair tools: a popup appeared saying I have incomplete language support and offered to help. That was nice, but it achieved nothing. Well, at least now, the messages in German are displayed correctly in UTF and forcing English does work:

$ LANGUAGE=en tcl
No command 'tcl' found, did you mean:    # CORRECT, this should be normal behaviour 
$ LANGUAGE=en:de:ro tcl
Der Befehl »tcl« wurde nicht gefunden, meinten Sie vielleicht: # This is German

Here is the output of locale as of now:

LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en:de:ro
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=POSIX
LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

Tried the following shebang lines:

$ head -n2 .bashrc | od -c
0000000 357 273 277   #   !   /   b   i   n   /   b   a   s   h  \n 
$ bash
bash: #!/bin/bash: No such file or directory

.bashrc starts with empty line supposedly (the first three characters are invisible):

$ head -n2 .bashrc | od -c
0000000 357 273 277  \n   #   !   /   b   i   n   /   b   a   s   h  \n
$ bash:
: command not found

After that line the bashrc lines are executed normally, so the functionality is NOT affected. However I find this error to be quite annoying.

I hope this post helps someone.